Morning News Roundup: Goodbye, Harmon Hotel

Architecture news and views from around the nation and beyond.

MGM Resorts International, the owner of the Harmon Hotel in Las Vegas, got court permission to tear down the never-completed structure designed by London's Foster + Partners. Part of the massive $8.5 billion CityCenter complex, the building project broke ground in 2006 but has faced concerns over structural integrity. It was designed to be 49 floors, but 21 of those floors were scrapped in 2008 due to faulty installation of rebar. Fred A. Bernstein wrote in ARCHITECT in 2010 that the Harmon Hotel building "may be the least important building of Norman Foster's [Hon. FAIA] career." [Dezeen]

Quote of the Day: "Appliances can be designed with fashion because they last such a short time. And even entertainment is kind of transitory. But buildings, because they last such a long time, should be approached differently. Approaching them as a kind of entertainment distorts architecture." —Witold Rybczynski, Hon. FAIA, in interview with Karrie Jacobs (both ARCHITECT contributors) [The New York Times]

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Infographic of the day: This is the perfect office, according to design research. [The Huffington Post]